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For this striking work, Korean artist Do-Ho Suh placed thousands of tiny human figures below a sheet of glass. They support the weight of visitors who walk through the Singapore Tyler Print Institute. This exhibit will be on display through February 11.
Link | Gallery Website | Photo: Lehmann Maupin Gallery
Previously by This Artist: A Fabric Home
CORRECTION 1/12/12: This exhibit is on display at a gallery in Singapore, not New York City, as previously stated.
If I were the art gallery operator, I probably wouldn’t invite this guy back — at least until I found how how Brazilian artist Henrique Oliveira makes his sculptures. They are PVC frames covered with peeled wood, although they appear to be growing out of the walls. View several more examples at the link, including some beautiful ones that are covered with trippy paint schemes.
Link | Artist’s Website (Google Translate)
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Artists Christoph Steinbrener and Rainer Dempf created this art installation in the Schönbrunn Zoo in Vienna to show the potential effects our negative actions take on the evironment.
According to the artists, these scenes of ecological nightmares are “experimental set-up[s]” in which “the viewer is forced to reconsider traditional modes of animal presentation and simultaneously to question the authenticity of concepts which are restaging ‘natural’ environments while they are increasingly endangered.”
